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Zelda Wii U - Recap of 5 hours gameplay stream
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Armoured Titan
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I understand that. It just concerns me that if it's possible then the story isn't particularly important or necessary. Usually you'd have to complete certain areas, dungeons have the story play out, etc before you could move onto the next chapter.
encephalon
Member
Oh my god, pro controller compatibility. Thank God!
Captain Smoker
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Dwight Schrute
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Holy Order Sol
Member
Posts like these make me want Ganon more.
Jim_Cacher
Member
Such a large world... finding all Koroks without a guide will be a nightmare.
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
This is why I hope there'll be something like what you could do in Metroid Prime 3: you could unlock the ability to have the game mark where the pickups were and whether you'd obtained them or not.
Like, make it optional, make it take significant investment, just have it exist. Because finding 95% of things on your own is fun, but tearing your hair out over the last 5% is not.
Milly Osworth
Member
This is your takeaway of if it all? Damn.
Herbspiceguy
Member
Has it become a joke/meme to keep comparing the Witcher 3 to LoZ?
I don't get it. They're both open world games in a fantasy setting, but the games are vastly different in what they're trying to achieve.
I don't get it. They're both open world games in a fantasy setting, but the games are vastly different in what they're trying to achieve.
25_Cans_Of_Bacon
Banned
Game looks great gameplay wise, but the art direction leaves a bit to be desired. Amazing animation though.
Also, fuck Amiibo.
Wolf that fights and hunts for you? Well at least it's good to know this is minor content Nintendo's putting on them, and nothing that really adds to the game.
Also, fuck Amiibo.
Wolf that fights and hunts for you? Well at least it's good to know this is minor content Nintendo's putting on them, and nothing that really adds to the game.
Wait, where exactly? It's totally different
MoogleWizard
Member
OMG, witch time in Zelda! Now I want a Bayonetta costume for Link (make the Bayonetta amiibo compatible with this game).
It all sounds great except that cooking/crafting/managing lots of items stuff. I hate that. Many RPGs do this and it's not fun or interesting, it's just a chore. I just want to cut some grass for hearts or drink a potion/release a fairy.
Jim_Cacher
Member
Yeah, this feature should be included. I have confident that the team will think of this.
It's going to be for players who beat the game, know what they are doing, and want the challenge. Players who try it the first time out are going to quit playing or go back and try to do other stuff first. Going through the story will more than likely make the final boss loads easier.
And considering they've shown us the intro that gives us a good sense of mystery already, I think the story is actually going to be somewhat good.
I think come 2017 it will become a meme to compare Zelda to Horizon...
DownGrader
Member
From various impressions here, it seems that Treehouse stream had some framerate problems which were not noticed in videos from demo booths.
Throwaway123456789
Member
The stream quality, particularly on Twitch, has been atrocious.
Probably been posted already, but it appears that no, there's (a little bit?) more to the map than that. Here you can see slightly more a bit higher up on the map. It could go higher still, and maybe other directions too.
Holy sausage.
Release this beauty asap.
thebisonxrc
Member
Man, what they showed off on the first day looked fantastic. Knowing that it is only a sliver of what will be in the final game has me feeling pretty darn excited.
Use pop-out and close the Twitch chat. MILES better.
Games like Witcher dont have the same level of puzzle design. Thats a big deal for many Zelda fans.
Not one penny wasted.
Here's hoping we'll get a stable 1080p@30 on the NX!
(60 would be great of course, but I can live without it in this type of game, as long as it's at a stable 30fps.)
I suspect something like "Push back the miasma to reveal other regions/towns/cities/people - so the world gradually gets more populated, hence towns revealing story components
Adam_Vania
Banned
This looks fine but I hope these aren't the final sounds and music cues. That chime that plays whenever Link picks something up got old real fast.
NumberThree
Member
That's great.
Gotta admit, this game looks great. Exceptional variety and you can invent environmental solutions to problems. Feels like the "creative solution" game Zelda always should have been, rather than the "use key X to open door Y" game it became.
Underrated Gif.
No it doesn't.
I think the NX version will look better but there's still a chance that it will just run at better res/frame rate and with some minor tweaks (better lod/shadow res and distance, AA, etc) if they didn't have the time to really take advantage of the more powerful hardware. Not saying this is the case, but it's a possibility imho.
boiled goose
good with gravy
Main concern to me is difficulty.
Yes there are weakspot containing big sub bosses but the grunts themselves have to be Tough enough to force you to explore all the gameplay options.
Yes there are weakspot containing big sub bosses but the grunts themselves have to be Tough enough to force you to explore all the gameplay options.
EdwardTivrusky
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You hit things, your weapon breaks and you quick-swap to a new weapon and carry on.
What does weapon degradation have to do with dropping a torch?
Treehouse stream showed different hairstyles but i don't know if you can craft clothes or not. You can upgrade them but i haven't seen clothes being made only found.
Majukun
Member
there is a crating system as much as i heard,but it wasn't featured in the demo
as per hairstyle..some people say in some screeshot link has a different hairstyle
I doubt you won't get the chance to start with hero mode, or hero mode+ganon amiibo. They introduced that possibility with TP HD, makes no sense to leave it out of this game.
Chairman Yang
if he talks about books, you better damn well listen
I have to admit, I was sort of expecting Nintendo to plop a conventional Zelda game into an open world, then fill that open world with tons of padding. At best, they'd ape great Western open world games, and maybe introduce a couple of cool gimmicky twists. My hopes were low.
That's why I'm genuinely shocked that Nintendo is making something this crazily different from status-quo Zelda or other open world games. Even if the execution fails, the ambition, innovation, emergence, and openness is way beyond what I expected from modern Nintendo handling one of their crown jewel IPs. I mean, this is insanely conservative Zelda, not an immersive sim like Dishonored.
I guess I should have seen the signs with Mario Maker and A Link Between Worlds. I'm excited!
That's why I'm genuinely shocked that Nintendo is making something this crazily different from status-quo Zelda or other open world games. Even if the execution fails, the ambition, innovation, emergence, and openness is way beyond what I expected from modern Nintendo handling one of their crown jewel IPs. I mean, this is insanely conservative Zelda, not an immersive sim like Dishonored.
I guess I should have seen the signs with Mario Maker and A Link Between Worlds. I'm excited!